Evangelical Free Church of America

The Evangelical Free Church of America is a pietistic Christian denomination in the evangelical Protestant tradition. It was founded in June 1950 in Minneapolis, Minnesota as a merger of the Swedish and Norwegian-Danish Free Church Associations, and each member church is autonomous. In 2014, the EFCA had 371,191 members in 1,500 congregations, and close to 550 missionaries served in more than 80 countries.